Chapter 14: Compound Words in Latin
§96. Chapter 14: Exercises
As a final workout in the Latin section of the course, here is a series of word analyses. You may agree that the toughest part of this procedure can be just getting the hyphens in the right places; once you’ve identified the components, it is often a routine task to explain them. This time, therefore, let’s hyphenate each Latin etymon. For example,
| e.g. | artificiality |
< L art-i-fic-i-al-itas: art– (ars, artis, “skill”) –i– (connecting vowel) –fic– (facere, “make”) –i– (noun suffix –ium) adj. suffix –alis (“pertaining to”) noun suffix –itas |
| 1. | transfusion |
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| 2. | equivocal |
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| 3. | compulsive |
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| 4. | accident |
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| 5. | inexplicable |
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| 6. | circulatory |
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| 7. | pertinacity |
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| 8. | insignificance |
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| 9. | circumnavigator |
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| 10. | animadversion |
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For Key to Exercises (Latin), see Appendix I.
